EUGENE HALLIDAY

EUGENE HALLIDAY Podcast

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Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer and teacher. For a large part of his life he lived and taught in Manchester running groups and giving guidance and personal tuition to a large number of interested people. He was a gifted artist, a writer of books, plays, and poetry as well as possessing a profound understanding of philosophy, religion and the science of his day. His legacy is extensive with 15 books published and many other writings and over 250 recorded talks. Much of his work centred on his interpretation of the esoteric ideas behind religion.

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EUGENE HALLIDAY

Episodes

THE DEMONIC 06.02.2023 1:16:12

Send a text Eugene begins by analysing the word ‘papyrus’. To the Egyptians the word meant more than ‘paper’. It represented the three-fold function of the Absolute, the Trinity; the same trinity that we find in all the ancient religions. He asks the audience to imagine a sheet of paper infinitely extended in space in three dimensions. This ‘papyrus’ now represents “a three-dimensional continuum o...

DESIRE AND THE EGO 06.02.2023 1:05:06

Send a text Eugene is asked 3 questions: 1. How to still desire. 2. How to use intelligently, the egotism with which we are burdened. 3. What is the origin of all true religion? 1. Stilling Desire. He says that “desire is not to be stilled but a worthwhile object for it is to be attained.” Desire is a force, an energy, and is essential within us. Desire is always towards or away from a stimulus. I...

DIALETICS 05.12.2022 1:11:58

Send a text Eugene begins by asking: “What are we going to talk about tonight?” An audience member asks about the ‘Bardo Thodol’, the ‘Tibetan Book of the Dead’. He draws a circle and puts an arrowhead on the circumference to show that it is going round. Without circumscription, there would be no ‘ground of being’. (‘Ground’ is G-round: the going round of energy.) Opposite to the ‘dead’ are the ‘q...

ACCIDENT 28.11.2022 1:13:25

Send a text Eugene begins by saying that everybody believes that accidents happen. He says “There isn’t any.” He goes back to the fundamental idea that dualism is impossible and asks someone to say why. The proof is that absolute un-likes could not communicate and therefore there cannot be more than one basic reality. As human beings, two facts are obvious to us: we have physicality, in our bodies...